Court discharges Late Kikibees CEO’s Girlfriend 

Mam Yandey Joof, the girlfriend of the late Bennet Agyekum Adomah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge has been discharged by the Madina District Court where she was being committed for his murder.

This follows an advice from the Office of the Attorney General which asked that the accused who was charged with one count of murder should be discharged.

It will be recalled that Joof was arrested and dragged before the court for allegedly killing her boyfriend, the late Adomah, who had visited her at Ogbojo in Accra where he is said to have become “hyper and started behaving strangely and throwing about things in the room amidst shouting that some people were chasing him.”

The 40-year-old was said to have been found in a pool of blood and had a cut on his thigh when he was rushed to the hospital, but died a few moments later. She was remanded by the court and her plea was reserved as the court did not have the jurisdiction to neither grant bail nor take a plea in a murder charge.

On December 5, 2023, a High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, granted her bail in the sum of GH¢200,000 with one surety to be justified.

The court granted the bail largely because the final autopsy report, attached to the application filed by Muniru Kassim, showed that the deceased died from severe injury to the head following a fall due to alcohol intoxication.

The District Court had been waiting for the advice of the Attorney General which would determine which charges to prefer against the accused person, whether the case needed further investigation or the accused ought to the discharged.

When the case was called yesterday, the prosecutor told the court that the Attorney General’s advice was ready and it had asked that Joof should be discharged.

The court, presided over by Her Worship Susana Nyakotey, subsequently discharged the accused who burst into tears in the courtroom.